anti-fandom
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.50 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The anti-fans of a television show, movie, book, fictional character, etc., taken as a group.
adj
Example Sentences
- "The Comic-Con confrontation is just one example of this tension, as Twilight seems to inspire a particularly active anti-fandom, which can be seen both in mainstream media accounts of clashes between fans and anti-fans and in the online forums we analyze in this chapter."
- "That [Bob] Dylan might be involved in a game with his critics implies that he actively provoked his own anti-fandom."
- "From the point of view of fan studies, anti-fandom constitutes a response to something that “is perceived as harming a text as a whole,” such as Star Wars fans' antipathy for the character Jar Jar Binks (Gray 2003, 73)."